D-Day - British Troops landing - Queen Beach - Sword Area

View over Queen Beach, Sword Area at approx. 8:30am. Soldiers of No.1 Platoon, 84 Field Company RE are in the foreground, passing the heavily laden medical orderlies of No.8 Field Ambulance, some of whom are assiting the wounded. The men of the 1st Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment and Lord Lovats's can be seen in the background. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied troops followed by an amphibious assault by infantry. The Normandy landings were the largest single-day amphibious actions ever undertaken, involving close to 400, 000 military and naval personnel

Ambulance Dday Landings Neptune Orderlies Overlord

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